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W.Kenworthy wrote: | Rather than looking at kde/gnome, you might get better results by | changing the xserver priority. There were some threads on the forums in | the past on this with good results. Some have also reported that | compiling xfree (and xorg) with -Os can make a big difference to x/x | apps, but I suspect that it would only help startup, and be very | detrimental to continuous processing such as movie playback. | | You mention snappier menus etc - this is indicative that you do not have | enough resources to go around - if you up the priority for these | actions, what is going to happen to your playback? Moving to Kernel 2.6 | with the appropriate scheduler may help here if you are still using 2.4. | - 2.4 is ultimately "faster" in terms of work processed, but 2.6 is much | more responsive to desktop actions. | | As a gnome user, I would also like to add to the other reply you got | from a kde user. gnome/kde are both resource hogs, and on older HW you | *WILL* need to go to a lighter window manager to get decent performance. | I have used fluxbox successfully where gnome wouldnt cut it in the past | - this not to put down my favourite window environment, but an | acknowledgement that all that niceness comes at a (sometimes | prohibitive) price. |
Another option which might give a better performance would be to prelink KDE. Information on prelink can be found at:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml
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